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[–] Art3sian@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Back in the early days of Reddit if you edited something it was marked as such, but people didn’t know what you edited. So, as a courtesy, you explained your edit.

Lots of platforms now have an ‘edited’ notification so it’s still common to leave the ‘E:’ comment.